{"id":19463,"date":"2025-09-14T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19463"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:24:36","slug":"its-unacceptable-inside-growing-concerns-about-patels-fbi-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19463","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s unacceptable\u2019: Inside growing concerns about Patel\u2019s FBI leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Patel\u2019s upbeat tone contrasted with frustration and anger, both inside and outside the FBI, over his handling of the most high-profile moment of his tenure so far. Some FBI employees told CNN they found it galling for Patel to claim personal credit for the most successful parts of the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, it was Patel who had posted on Wednesday that a \u201csubject\u201d was in custody, a claim he had to walk back less than two hours later. Patel\u2019s style also struck the FBI employees as not in keeping with how previous FBI directors handled similar situations, normally trying to credit employees instead of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other FBI employees found it ironic that Patel thanked some of the bureau\u2019s support staff key to investigations \u2014 since he has overseen moves to decimate those ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patel\u2019s response during the rapid-fire series of events surrounding Kirk\u2019s horrific murder has led some allies of President Donald Trump to question both publicly and privately whether he is equipped to handle the country\u2019s top law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A MAGA loyalist and member of the first Trump administration, Patel was a controversial pick to lead the FBI from the start, with many Trump critics questioning whether he was qualified for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/unacceptable-inside-growing-concerns-patel-040005022.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/unacceptable-inside-growing-concerns-patel-040005022.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Patel\u2019s upbeat tone contrasted with frustration and anger, both inside and outside the FBI, over his handling of the most high-profile moment of his tenure so far. Some FBI employees told CNN they found it galling for Patel to claim personal credit for the most successful parts of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it was Patel who had posted on Wednesday that a \u201csubject\u201d was in custody, a claim he had to walk back less than two hours later. Patel\u2019s style also struck the FBI employees as not in keeping with how previous FBI directors handled similar situations, normally trying to credit employees instead of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Other FBI employees found it ironic that Patel thanked some of the bureau\u2019s support staff key to investigations \u2014 since he has overseen moves to decimate those ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Patel\u2019s response during the rapid-fire series of events surrounding Kirk\u2019s horrific murder has led some allies of President Donald Trump to question both publicly and privately whether he is equipped to handle the country\u2019s top law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>A MAGA loyalist and member of the first Trump administration, Patel was a controversial pick to lead the FBI from the start, with many Trump critics questioning whether he was qualified for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/unacceptable-inside-growing-concerns-patel-040005022.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2124,221,33,170],"class_list":["post-19463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-appointment","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19464,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19463\/revisions\/19464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}